Extravagance
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Published
New York : Broadway Books, [2002].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Broadway Books, [2002].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies. The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is also New York in the 1990s. The new technologies are diving bells, pneumatic winches, and "sucking-worm" drainage engines; but they are also wireless telecommunication devices, patented patented biotechnology processes, and revolutionary electronic Internet routers. Only the sense of unlimited possibility remains the same throughout... A comic, pictaresque novel of financial mania, the story of a world gripped by a terminal case of irrational exuberance. Navigating the perils of both eras is a single cast of characters: Will himself, a young man on the make, eager to do whatever it takes to make his fortune; Will's uncle (and sponsor) Gilbert Hawking, a shrewd businessman with one foot in the Old Economy and one in the New; Benjamin Fletcher, the developer of a pioneering new technology destined to set the world on fire; and Theodore Witherspoon, the cheerfully unscrupulous wizard of the financial markets who promises to make them all wealthy beyond their dreams.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Krist, G. (2002). Extravagance (First edition.). Broadway Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Krist, Gary. 2002. Extravagance. Broadway Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Krist, Gary. Extravagance Broadway Books, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Krist, Gary. Extravagance First edition., Broadway Books, 2002.
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